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Acute Kidney Injury Part II: Epidemiology

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Acute Kidney Injury

Summary

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in the ICU affecting up to 50% of critically ill patients (Joannidis et al. 2017). Over the past decades several attempts have been made to standardize the definition of AKI. In 2004 the Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss of function and End stage Kidney disease (RIFLE) criteria were published, the first consensus statement defining AKI based on serum creatinine and urine output (Bellomo et al. 2004). This was followed in 2007 by the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) (Mehta et al. 2007) and the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcome (KDIGO) criteria in 2012 (KDIGO 2012). These consensus statements made the way to investigate AKI in the critically ill worldwide using similar criteria. 


General Information

Enrolled trainees 1312

Open 11.11.2022

Available for ESICM members

Student effort 3

Last Updated April 11, 2024

Intended Learning Outcomes

After studying this module on Acute Kidney Injury Part II: Epidemiology you should be able to:

  • Understand the epidemiology of AKI
  • Recognise the risk factors for acute kidney injury
  • Distinguish between modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors

Relevant competencies in CoBaTrICE

  • 2.1 Obtains a history and performs an accurate clinical examination
  • 2.10 Integrates clinical findings with laboratory investigations to form a differential diagnosis
  • 3.2 Identifies the implications of chronic and co-morbid disease in the acutely ill patient
  • 3.5 Recognition of patients with or at risk for acute kidney injury

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